James P. Reed, Bruno Uchoa, Young Il Joe, Yu Gan, Diego Casa, Eduardo Fradkin, Peter Abbamonte, "The Effective Fine-Structure Constant of Freestanding Graphene Measured in Graphite," Science 330, 805-808 (2010).

T. Gog, G.T. Seidler, D.M. Casa, M.H. Upton, Jungho Kim, S. Stoupin, K.P. Nagle, M. Balasubramanian, R.A. Gordon, T.T. Fister, S.M. Heald, T. Toellner, J.P. Hill, D.S. Coburn, Young-June Kim, A.H. Said, E.E. Alp, W. Sturhahn, H. Yavas, C.A Burns, H. Sinn, "Momentum-resolved Resonant and Nonresonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering at the Advanced Photon Source," Synchrotron Radiation News 22, 12 - 20 (2009).

J.P. Hill, G. Blumberg, Y.-J. Kim, D.S. Ellis, S. Wakimoto, R.J. Birgeneau, S. Komiya, Y. Ando, B. Liang, R.L. Greene, D. Casa, T. Gog, "Observation of a 500 meV Collective Mode in La[subscript 2-x]Sr[subscript x]CuO[subscript 4] and Nd[subscript 2]CuO[subscript 4] Using Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 097001-1-097001-4 (2008).

J.P. Hill, D.S. Coburn, Y.-J. Kim, T. Gog, D.M. Casa, C.N. Kodituwakku, H. Sinn, "A 2m inelastic X-ray scattering spectrometer at CMC-XOR, Advanced Photon Source," J. Synchrotron Rad. 14 (4), 361-365 (2007).

Ronald L. Jones, Tengjiao Hu, Christopher L. Soles, Eric K. Lin, Ronald M. Reano, Stella W. Pang, Diego M. Casa, "Real-Time Shape Evolution of Nanoimprinted Polymer Structures during Thermal Annealing," Nano Lett. 6 (8), 1723-1728 (2006).

S. Grenier, J.P. Hill, V. Kiryukhin, W. Ku, Y.-J. Kim, K.J. Thomas, S.-W. Cheong, Y. Tokura, Y. Tomioka, D. Casa, T. Gog, "d-d Excitations in Manganites Probed by Resonant Inelastic X-ray Scattering," Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (4), 047203-1-047203-4 (2005).

Helga C. Lichtenegger, Henrik Birkedal, Diego M. Casa, Julie O. Cross, Steve M. Heald, J. Herbert Waite, Galen D. Stucky, "Distribution and Role of Trace Transition Metals in Glycera Worm Jaws Studied with Synchrotron Microbeam Techniques," Chem. Mater. 17 (11), 2927-2931 (2005).

Y.-J. Kim, J.P. Hill, G.D. Gu, F.C. Chou, S. Wakimoto, R.J. Birgeneau, S. Komiya, Y. Ando, N. Motoyama, K.M. Kojima, S. Uchida, D. Casa, T. Gog, "Molecular orbital excitations in cuprates: Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering studies," Phys. Rev. B 70, 205128-1-205128-4 (2004).
 

D. Casa, B. Keimer, M.v. Zimmermann, J.P. Hill, H.U. Habermeier, F.S. Razavi, "Unusual x-ray transport phenomena in La[subscript 1-x]Sr[subscript x]MnO[subscript 3]," Phys. Rev. B 64 (10), 100404-1-100404-7 (2001).

V. Kiryukhin, D. Casa, J.P. Hill, B. Keimer, A. Vigliante, Y. Tomioka, Y. Tokura, “An X-Ray-Induced Insulator-Metal Transition in a Magnetoresistive Manganite” Nature 386 (6627), 813-15 (1997).

 

• Research in various aspects of the operation and performance of the IXS instrument, including analyzer optics, tracking, detectors, and alignment.
• Charge-transfer excitations in Hi-Tc superconductors and related materials, in particular dependence of RIXS spectra on incident photon polarization.
• RIXS studies of electronic excitations (molecular orbitals) in transition metal oxides.
• Novel crystal optics for improved IXS monochromators
• RIXS studies on complex Mn oxides, aimed at ordered phases.

Princeton University

(7/96 – 12/00) Ph.D. in Physics, Jan 2001. M.S. Physics, January 1998.

Thesis topic: Colossal Magnetoresistance (CMR) In Manganese Perovskites.

Advisor: Dr. Bernhard Keimer.

Instituto Balseiro, Argentina

(6/92 – 12/95) Licenciado in Physics (equivalent to an U.S. M.S.), May 1995. Top 5% of class.

Thesis topic: Vortex pinning in HiTc superconductors with defects introduced by irradiation.

Advisor: Dr. Leonardo Civale.

Technological Institute of Buenos Aires (ITBA, Argentina)

B.S. Electronic engineering, December 1991.

Argonne National Laboratory, Complex Materials Consortium (CMC):

Beamline Scientist (7/02-present)

Postdoctoral Appointee (9/00-7/02)

Department of Physics, Princeton University:

Research Assistant  (7/96-12/00)

Argonne National Laboratory, Complex Materials Consortium (CMC):

Beamline Scientist (7/02-present)

Postdoctoral Appointee (9/00-7/02)

Department of Physics, Princeton University:

Research Assistant  (7/96-12/00)